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Museum Report

Ghost of Pearl Harbor

Housed in a most unusual museum in one of East Tennessee's historic mountain towns is a significant record and collection of memorabilia from the USS Tennessee (BB-43), one of the unsung battleship heroes of World War II. The USS Tennessee Battleship Remembrance Museum, about an hour's drive northwest of Knoxville in Scott County, is berthed in a two-story log structure built by Scott High School students who also operate it during the school year.

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Mr. Brown, a retired senior writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel, is an award-wining journalist with more than 45 years of experience. He now writes on Southern and military history, and veterans affairs as a freelance.

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